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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
With more than half of states closing their schools due to the coronavirus pandemic, hundreds of thousands of parents, grandparents, and other caregivers have become de facto “home schoolers” practically overnight. Students in this situation will likely be spending a fair amount of time on screens—as a lifeline, respite, or both. We have compiled some excellent suggestions—updated several times since initial publication—for making at least some of that time educational.
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Resources for learning from home during Covid-19 school closures
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Smiling through: Thirty-two resources for entertaining energetic preschoolers during daycare and preschool closures
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Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures
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Ways your whole family can volunteer during the COVID-19 crisis
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A test for the test: Moving the AP exams online
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6 ways districts can deliver quality virtual instruction
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To fix chronic absenteeism, we must ask why kids don’t want to go to school
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Are AP exams getting easier?
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Change our schooling paradigm to reduce chronic absenteeism
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Civics for today
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How can policymakers and practitioners reduce chronic absenteeism? The answer is sports.
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Schools cannot radically reduce chronic absenteeism alone
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How to implement a cellphone ban in schools
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California schools are failing to teach kids how to read
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Is “credit recovery” as bad as they say?
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Digging into the 2024 survey of American public school teachers
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Cheers and Jeers: July 25, 2024
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What we're reading this week: July 25, 2024
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